Crime & Safety

Cemetery Official: Exhuming of DeSalvo's Body Thursday 'Unlikely'

Written by Owen Boss.

The row of photographers and reporters stationed in the parking lot of the Puritan Lawn Memorial Cemetery in Peabody Thursday afternoon were all waiting to find out if Albert DeSalvo's body would be exhumed. 

Despite the brief appearance of several state police and Boston police vehicles just after noon, Lawrence Glynn III, who serves as the Director of Family Services at Puritan Lawn, told reporters that an exhuming Thursday would be unlikely.

Police are still blocking the entrance to the cemetery and unmarked cars with what appeared to be detectives were guided through the front gate shortly after 1 p.m.

We'll post more as we know it. 

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